Stories for a greener life

‘Innovation’

Results: 61

Ambercycle founder looking at fabric samples ciruclar fashion

Video

The company set to recycle 250,000 T-shirts a day

Ideas and innovation

video explainer circular economy definition

Video

What is the circular economy?

Ideas and innovation

aurora interview

Interview

AURORA: “All art, all music, all anything... is from nature”

eating insects

Articles

Insects: The new superfood?

Articles

Plastic pollution: Are we on the brink of a breakthrough?

Ideas and innovation

vinyl vs streaming what is most sustainable when listening to music

Articles

Is our love of vinyl hurting the planet? And can Billie Eilish fix it?

wildtype fish salmon sustainable alternative

Video

The fish of the future? We sample Wildtype’s cultivated salmon

Ideas and innovation

lab-grown fish

Articles

Lab-cultured fish: the newest alt-protein making a splash

carbon tracking apps

Articles

Can these apps help me cut my carbon footprint?

seaweed alternative to plastic packaging

Video

“Seaweed is the most generous material on Earth”

Ideas and innovation

Articles

Can VR help the world look the climate crisis in the eye?

Ideas and innovation

Articles

This Utah company is pioneering greener ski gear. The secret? Algae

High 5

She’s tackling cow burps – with seaweed

Gallery

Here comes
the sun

A woodcut illustration of a farmer pouring sewage from a bucket on to his crop field. In the background are high-rise tower blocks.

Articles

The power of your poop

Ideas and innovation

High 5

The engineer turning waste into bricks

Gallery

5’s best photography of 2022

Articles

22 things we learned
in 2022

Interview

The architect building houses from seaweed and shells

Video

He couldn't find any vegan cheese he liked, so he made his own

Articles

Insects and the city:
Breeding bugs to fix the food chain

Articles

Soon this will all be forest

Ideas and innovation

Articles

Actions, not words: 10 companies on why they got B Corp certified

Ideas and innovation

Articles

Would you want to be buried in a fungus coffin?

Ideas and innovation

Articles

Takeaway, not throwaway: The coffee cup you borrow and bring back

Gallery

The farm of the future

Articles

21 things we learned in 2021

Articles

The planet-friendly food innovations that just bagged a $2 million prize

Articles

How UK towns are turning car-free travel into a game

Articles

The fashion brand that publishes what it pays people

Articles

The cool companies making it easier to go green

Articles

Can a new kind of festival inspire us to live greener lives?

Articles

Astronaut’s eye view: Can a virtual trip to space jolt us into caring for our planet?

Interview

The rebel investors out to make a difference – not just a profit

High 5

The startup turning brewers’ waste into eco-plastic

Articles

The brand new fabric made from your old jeans

Articles

Air + sunshine = food. Really?

Articles

The future of food

Articles

The tiny forests regreening our cities

Articles

The startup that’s changing how the world sees coffee

Podcast

Noise pollution: Taking human sounds out of our oceans and restoring balance

Interview

The hunt for sustainable startups that see opportunity in the deep

Articles

The stunning potential of seaweed

Interview

The community determined to make waves with seaweed

Articles

The innovator bringing solar fridges to Nigeria’s markets

Gallery

5’s best quotes of 2020

Gallery

5’s best photography of 2020

Interview

One chef’s mission to create great food – without waste

Articles

The business of
fighting food waste

Gallery

The end of trash

Articles

Let’s reinvent sex education

Articles

The case for teaching kids philosophy

Podcast

The New School: teaching kids about consent, coding and climate

Articles

How to prepare kids for jobs that don’t exist yet

Interview

The ultimate learning machine

Interview

The power to predict the rains

Podcast

Meming our way through 2020

how the future was seen in the past drawing

Gallery

The future:
as seen from the past

Articles

The Palestinian inventor taking self-driving cars to uncharted territory

Articles

Designing a world without landmines

Articles

Teaching computers how to feel

5 new Reads

illustration of phones connected through a grid showing how we are influenced by the people we surround ourselves with

Explainer

What are social tipping points?

woman laying on the grass displaying touch grass meaning

Article

Go touch grass! Why this viral phrase is the ultimate life hack

hila the earth jumping in air.

High 5

High 5 to eco rapper Hila the Earth

Ambercycle founder looking at fabric samples ciruclar fashion

Video

The company set to recycle 250,000 T-shirts a day

Ideas and innovation

Close-up photo of Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station

Music

Tamara Lindeman of the Weather Station on the emotions of the climate crisis

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